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If we had kept pace with the moon landings we would probably have a permanent base and possible manufacturing getting going by now.

Without the Soviets pushing us it wasn't going to happen, because in and of itself, it wasn't economically sustainable, and neither did the space program buy enough votes.

11 posted on 06/08/2011 3:58:48 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)

Without the Soviets pushing us it wasn't going to happen, because in and of itself, it wasn't economically sustainable, and neither did the space program buy enough votes.

That's definitely one of the problems. If I were president I would pull us out of the international outer space treaty and truly open space to business beyond playing taxi driver and freight haulers to government facilities. Let them lay claim to asteroids and plots of land on the moon and planets with the requirement that they actually do something with their claims.